Hotel-indicator



(No Model.)

B. S. HERING.

HOTEL INDICATOR.

No. 275.210. Patented Apr. 3,1883.

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BENJAMIN S. HERING, OF CAMBRIDGE, OHIO.

HOTEL-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,210, dated April 3, 1883.

Applicationfiled December20,1882. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern Beitknown that I, BENJAMIN STOUGH HER- ING, of Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Hotel-Indicator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accom panying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 is a rear view.

My invention relates to improvements in hotel indicators; and it consists ofa series of slides, each operated by a button and each provided on its outer end with the number of a room, a slide being moved back to conceal the number of a room thereon when taken or occupied and moved forward to expose the number of the room when empty, the slides being guidedin their reciprocations by bars secured to the back face of a central board which conceals the numbers when the slides are drawn back, and .the whole surrounded by a frame, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Arepresents an outer frame constructed like an ordinary picture-frame.

B is a board extending centrally across the outer frame and resting on ledges formed in the longitudinal pieces of theouter frame. The central board, B, is provided with a series of horizontal slots, 0, through which pass a series of pins, a, having buttons I) on their outer ends resting on the front face of the central board, B, over the slots 0. Therear ends of the pins or are each secured to one of a series of rectangular slides, (1, adapted to be reciprocated in recesses n in the back face of the central board, B, between the horizontal guide-bars a. secured to the back face of the central board, B. On the front face of the central board are affixed, on each side opposite each slot, the numbers of the rooms of a floor, it being intended "to have an indicator for each floor of the hotel, and the same number is secured to the outer end of each slide. In practice, when a room is taken by a guest the landlord pushes the button of the number of the room occupied; when vacated, the slide of said room is pushed and concealed by lying under the central board. Wire rods f are secured by staplesg to the guide-bars 6 over the slides in the back face of the central board, to keep the slides in place while allowingthem to be moved back and forth,and strips of glass h are placed between the sides of the central board and the sides of the outer frame, to protect the parts from dust.

What I claim as my invention is- In an indicator for a hotel, the combination, with the outer frame, A, and slotted central board, B, provided with the numbers of the rooms on its front face opposite said slots, and having recesses n on its back face, and rods f, secured by staplesg to horizontal guide-bars e, of the slides (I, having pins a, with buttons b, eah slide having a number of a room affixed to its outer end corresponding with the number on the front face of the central board opposite its slot, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

BENJAMIN STOUGH HERING.

Witnesses W. S. HEATH, J. M. MGGILL. 

